The Wayward Welfare StateHoover Press, 1981 - 511 Enl. and updated ed. of: The growth of American government. 1975. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Governmental Pay | 33 |
Government Pensions | 41 |
Unionization in the Public Service | 46 |
Public Revenues Government as a Siphon | 55 |
Taxation in a Federal System of Government | 62 |
Federal Aid to State and Local Governments | 169 |
The Input and the Output of the Welfare State | 177 |
The Income and the Outcome of Education | 181 |
The Alchemists in Our Public Schools20 | 200 |
Income Support and the War on Poverty | 209 |
Welfares Snakepit Aid to Dependent Children | 215 |
How Secure is Social Security? | 232 |
Unemployment Compensation and the Unemployment Rate | 245 |
The American Tax System | 67 |
The Personal Income Tax | 74 |
The Corporation Profits Tax | 95 |
Consumption Taxes | 102 |
The Social Security Tax | 106 |
The Property Tax | 112 |
Public Expenditures Government as a Well | 122 |
Upward Trends | 124 |
A Declining Share for National Defense | 126 |
A Shift from the Purchase of Goods and Services to Transfer Payments | 127 |
Explosion in Spending for Domestic Purposes | 128 |
A Policy Reversal in the Late 1970s? | 132 |
Reordering National PrioritiesGuns vs Butter | 134 |
How Much Defense Do We Need? | 141 |
Military Manpower on the Downgrade | 148 |
Can It be Reversed? | 149 |
Can the Budget Be Controlled? | 151 |
Attempts at Budget Reform | 157 |
Reforming the Congressional Budget Process | 162 |
The Promise and the Harvest of the Welfare State | 167 |
Medical Services and Health | 260 |
Crime Without Punishment | 274 |
Housing Blight City Plight and the Evanescence of Urban Revitalization | 289 |
The Minorities Problem | 318 |
Issues and Prospects | 360 |
A Builtin Growth Trend? | 364 |
The Protagonists of Governmental Expansion | 373 |
The Failure of the Great Society and the Rise of the Neoconservatives | 379 |
Redistributing Income | 382 |
The War on Poverty and Other Great Society Escapades | 393 |
Concentration of Power and Loss of Freedom | 399 |
Judicial Supremacy vs Government by the People | 407 |
Two Decades to the Millennium? Prophecies Projects and Prospects | 417 |
Trends and Prospects | 421 |
Twilight of the Welfare State? | 434 |
Appendix | 439 |
Notes | 477 |
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